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These days, I often see cartoons with this theme. Having kept a journal around 40 years ago, I looked into it and found I wrote that the Rolling Stones would probably still be a favorite among the then-current generation when they were old; that Grandma “Sunshine-Mandala” and Grandpa “Windsong” would be humming “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” while in rocking chairs..We sneered at Lawrence Welk , and The 1001 Strings – but maybe the current generation looks at The Stones and The Beatles the same way. Sometime in the future, most likely, Lady Ga Ga will be hawking her “Greatest Hits” on 3D TV, as will Eminem, 50-Cent, and any gangsta rappers that survived assassination..And by the way, people in their sixties and seventies (married as well as single) are pretty frisky these days – what with Viagra and other chemicals. Venereal disease has been rising among seniors for some time. What the heck, they got the time and the money. Why should Youth be wasted on the young?

Too right you should have seen my 63 year mother jiving with my dad on his 65th birthday to"This Could Be The Last Time" They were the best dancers there and so much better than my generation or their grandchildren’s generation.

“Lady Gaga” and rappers will never reach the level of admiration, respect and appreciation that bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles enjoy. They’re simply not as talented. I’m 15, and the music I enjoy the most is all from the ‘60s, ’70s and ’80s. There’s some good music generated today, but the mainstream stuff isn’t worth listening to.

I was listening to the Ramones at work not too long ago, and one of the twenty something interns said “aren’t you a little old to be listening to that kind of music?” I looked at her and informed her that I was 3 when their first album came out, and that most of the band has been dead for at least a decade. Then I felt old…

He showed me his record room which included nearly a wall full of 78 rpm jazz records from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. Since I was, at the time, a musician, we began discussing popular music. My Uncle pulled out “Cherokee” by Charlie Barnet, circa. 1939, played it, and said, "This is a record that people will still be listening to 30 years from now, long after they’ve forgotten “Satisfaction.”

I’m 65, so I think I can speak with some authority when I say that Sturgeon’s Revelation was just as true in those earlier generations as now.As for Lady Gaga, I admit I thought she was all style and no substance until I saw her do a duet with Tony Bennett on TV a couple months ago. Lord, the pipes on that woman! “Not as talented” in a pig’s eye. I once heard Mary Travers from about twenty feet away in the mid-70s, and as exquisite as her voice was, Lady Gaga’s is in the same league.BTW, given the economics and technology of the music industry today, WTFis “mainstream”?

About The Argyle Sweater

The Argyle Sweater presents a surreal, hilarious (and sometimes punny) look at the world you think you know. Armed with a willingness to explore every edge of the surreal, Scott Hilburn’s creation presents his sharply unique take on history, everyday life and the truly absurd.